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Women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: the 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the labor unrest of 1930 -- Colonial labor and the disciplinary power of ethnicity -- Managing women in wartime and beyond

"This interdisciplinary edited collection features historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore a transpacific understanding of the legacies of the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Instead of limiting the focus of the nuclear humanities to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays take readers from the New Mexican desert, to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, to small fishing villages on the island of Shikoku in Japan. They bring together different times and places as well as art historical analysis and academic essays. Focusing on themes of resistance, this collection illustrates the varied methods artists and activists can use to combat nuclear regimes through their aesthetic and political work. By putting activists and artists together, it demonstrates the overlaps and linkages between them as well as the different ways political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change. Through the personal testimonies of hibakushas, lawsuits filed to demand compensation for the medical treatment of affected fisherman, community education programs that raise historical awareness, and artistic projects that provide social commentary, this volume illustrates that nuclear resistance can come in many forms"--

This book explores gender, labour and class in Korea and Japan, both during the twentieth century and today. It shows how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities, demonstrating that sexual and labor relations have been crucial factors in shaping the cultures of industrialization in both Japan and Korea.

Intro -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Rethinking Activism and Activists -- 1: Women's Rights as Proletarian Rights -- 2: From "Motherhood in the Interest of the State" to Motherhood in the Interest of Mothers -- 3: From Women's Liberation to Lesbian Feminism in Japan -- 4: The Mainstreaming of Feminism and the Politics of Backlash in Twenty-First-Century Japan -- Part II: Rethinking Education and Employment -- 5: Coeducation in the Age of "Good Wife, Wise Mother" -- 6: Flower Empowerment -- 7: Liberating Work in the Tourist Industry -- Part III: Rethinking Literature and the Arts -- 8: Seeing Double -- 9: Feminist Acts of Reading -- 10: Dangerous Women and Dangerous Stories -- Part IV: Rethinking Boundaries -- 11: Yamakawa Kikue and Edward Carpenter -- 12: Rethinking Japanese Feminism and the Lessons of Ūman Ribu -- 13: Toward Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity -- 14: Takemura Kazuko -- Conclusion: On Rethinking Japanese Feminisms -- Contributors -- Index